Protecting wealth can imperil the rich

Those at the top are often “tempted to pull up the ladder” that got them there, says Chrystia Freeland in The New York Times. But by pursuing policies that favor the wealthy, the upper class risks “destroying the open system that made America rich and allowed its 1 percent to thrive in the first place,” she says.

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The very rich are already making contingency plans for when society collapses altogether, assured if they keep skimming off the top in their concerted effort to get while the getting is good, while abrogating any responsibility for fixing the mess their concentrations of wealth have caused the rest of the world. Without their active participation (which we already know they will not do), the resource stripped, polluted, overpopulated world they leave behind, as they retreat to enclaves (see Sun Myung Moon/ Bush family/ Uruguay) now being set up in remote and easily defensible outback areas as ‘luxury resorts’, will occur (“Atlas Shrugged” style), where they will wait out the collapse they full well expect (and are responsible for), all to reassert their authority once everything has fallen into ruin. That the rest of us will have to fight over the scraps they leave behind just to survive, is of NO concern to them, as long as they survive to seize control once again, but next time without all that pesky democracy crap they so eschew.